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They took him, took the man upon whose disclosures they are resting their case against me, and put him to death,1 a thing which no one else would have dreamed of doing. As a rule, informers are rewarded with money, if they are free, and with their liberty, if they are slaves. The prosecution paid for their information with death, and that in spite of a protest from my friends that they should postpone the execution until my return.
1 It should be noted that the witness was a slave who had been purchased by the prosecution （cf. previous note and Antiph. 5.47, init.）.
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